Rhonda Burchmore - Rhonda Burchmore (1997)

From television to the big screen, musical theatre to opera to cabaret, there are few entertainment mediums that Rhonda Burchmore has not embraced with her wide ranging talents.
Throughout her career Rhonda has made a distinctive impression on audiences with her dazzling dance steps, superb comic timing, effervescent personality and her stunning voice. A role that showcased Rhonda’s versatility was the Australian production of Sugar Babies, opposite Garry McDonald and Broadway legend Eddie Bracken. She so impressed the producers that she was invited to repeat her role opposite Mickey Rooney and Anne Miller in London’s West End production in 1988. Whilst in the U.K. Rhonda also starred with Anthony Newley in the revival of Stop The World I Want To Get Off.

Other stage credits include Song And Dance, They’re Playing Our Song, Lend Me A Tenor, Iolanthe, Die Fledermaus, An Evening With Sondheim, and the title role of Annie in Annie Get Your Gun. David Atkins, who featured Rhonda in his 1987 hit Dancin’ Man, wrote a role especially for her in his tap musical, Hot Shoe Shuffle. She also starred in Aladdin and Cinderella.

In 1997 Rhonda opened the Melbourne Crown Casino with her own show ‘Red Hot & Rhonda’ which played to over 60,000 people. In the same year Tommy Tune approached Rhonda to play opposite him on Broadway in Irving Berlin’s Easter Parade. In the same year she played the Witch in the Melbourne Theatre Company’s production of Stephen Sondheim’s Into The Woods.

In 1998 Shock Records released Rhonda’s first album, self titled, Rhonda Burchmore featuring her big band swing feel. She has since released another 3 albums, Midnight Rendezvous, Live At The Melbourne Concert Hall and most recently the acclaimed Pure Imagination. Rhonda will tour Australia in 2008 to promote her latest album.........